Trump eliminates 70 positions inherited from Obama -- including roles on the NSC: report
Source: Rawstory
President Donald Trumps decision to fire Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland (U.S. ambassador to the European Union) on Friday, February 7 has been dubbed the Friday Night Massacre a name inspired by President Richard Nixons infamous Saturday Night Massacre of the 1970s. Never Trump conservative Max Boot, in his Washington Post column, predicted that the Friday Night Massacre was only the beginning and sure enough, the right-wing Washington Examiner is reporting that a lot more firings are taking place. According to the Examiners Paul Bedard, Trump and National Security Adviser Robert OBrien have decided to cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama including positions in the National Security Council (NSC).
Bedard quotes John Ullyot, senior director of strategic communications at the NSC, as saying, This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador OBrien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions.
Trump clearly was not happy that both Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland testified during House Democrats impeachment inquiry in late 2019. After that inquiry, Trump faced two articles of impeachment one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress in a full House vote, although he was later acquitted on both articles in a U.S. Senate trial. And the Friday Night Massacre has been described by many Trump critics as an act of revenge.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trump-eliminates-70-positions-inherited-from-obama-including-roles-on-the-nsc-report/
Turbineguy
(37,344 posts)Dan
(3,570 posts)Hitler, unlike Trump wasnt a coward.
DBoon
(22,369 posts)Trump expects other people to serve him
The Mouth
(3,150 posts)Wounded in action.
bucolic_frolic
(43,190 posts)We'd better be prepared for this angle
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Easier to keep tabs on the graft and favors.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Anyone who might stand in Tangerine Idi Amin's way must go. We can't have anyone keeping tabs on The Festering Pus-wart. They might blow the whistle on him, and we can't have that!
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)What a sick person.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)I'm pretty sure I read that he did that at one of his hate rallies already. In any case, you are correct.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)The year after the end of the world...
Shipwack
(2,164 posts)... the announcement that the chocolate ration is to be increased to 20 grams a week....
ffr
(22,670 posts)I remember when a democratic president did this. Only, no they didn't.
Loyalty to the king.
HE IS FUCKING OUT OF CONTROL!
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)That we need to pray for him.
Like a movement. One day a month, at noon, in mass gatherings, around the globe, millions of people praying for his dark,sick soul.
Be fun and uplifting, if nothing else.